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Google IPO Swami
The Google IPO Swami writes: "I'm running an experiment and Slashdot readers would be good contributors. As you may know, Google recently announced that they will be using a unique dutch auction structure to price shares of their IPO. Instead of having the underwriters determine the opening price, the price will be set by the demand of investors that register to participate. I'm interested in how well the public can estimate this demand and the price of the shares to be offered. I'm giving away free shares in Google to find out. The person that comes closest to estimating the opening and closing price of the stock on the IPO date will win shares in the company."
Martha Stewart has some "special" information she passed in to me.
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Google will have an IPO value of $100!
How about a Dutch oven...
Good question. The contest is modelled on the standard "how many jellybeans in a jar", where the traditional prize for being closest to the correct number is the jar full of jellybeans itself. Thus the reward is the total number of shares available in Google. Seems worth a guess anyway.
The answer is $42. 42 is always the answer.
Sailors. Oh man!
Opening Price: 75cents
MiddayHigh: 150 dollars.
Closing Price: 25 cents.
Opening: eleventy-billion
Closing: $Texas
Great idea! And you're a great guy!
I'm going to send you my 19 day old P-P-P-Powerbook as thanks!
-Jeff
My GUESS...
more like $80 opening, $40 closing by the end of the first week of Google trading, mid $20s, where it will stablize.. Or, if we geeks have anything to say about it... $60.22 (think about it...) or $31.415 (decimals shifted to adjust to a possible real world value of G00G stock.) This is like a dotcom, but they have been "developing" for a bit longer, so they might not crash 'n burn maybe.
Dear Sir. Your contact information was referred to me by one of my trusted contacts, whose name I am not at liberty to compromize. I would like to approach you with reguards to a profitable Business Proposal, reguarding the transfer of TEN MILLION SHARES OF GOOGLE STOCK. For reasons I am sure you will appreciate, I ask that you keep this commucation confidential, and avoid it falling into the hands of any agents of the Nigerian Secret Police that may be operating in Your area. My name is Mabwano DeLacroix, and I am the Son of Sir LARRY PAGE, the recently Removed from Power Chairman of GOOGLE. If you have been following the events on Slashdot over the last few years, you will remember the big scandal that took place when Sir PAGE was imprisoned for alleged crimes against SCO without standing a trial.
I submitted this a while back, and it was predictably rejected, but if you really care about the Google IPO, take a gander at this article:
Well, that depends how much you think the shares will be worth...
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1. An unprecendented number of Slashdot geeks have started receiving massive amounts of spam after signing up for free Google shares. The email-harvesting www.googleiposwami.co seemed to be endorsed by /. editors by way of posting the article.
2. And in other /. news ... /. editors use spam techniques to make money from their subscriber base. CowboyNeal could not be reached at his new off-shore resort for comment.
Why does slashdot post up garbage like this? I saw that the site wasn't affiliated with Google, After I signed up, because you retards linked straight to the survey.
My email address is going to be usless now, u fuckwads.
Google Corp.
Lagos, Nigeria.
Attention: The President/CEO
Confidential Business Proposal
Dear Sir,
Having consulted with my colleagues and based on the information gathered from the Nigerian Chambers Of Commerce And Industry, I have the privilege to request your assistance to transfer the sum of $2,700,000,000 (two billion, seven hundred million United States dollars) into your accounts. The above sum resulted from an over-invoiced contract, executed, commissioned and paid for about five years (5) ago by a foreign contractor. This action was however intentional and since then the fund has been in a suspense account at The Central Bank Of Nigeria Apex Bank.
We are now ready to transfer the fund overseas and that is where you come in. It is important to inform you that as civil servants, we are forbidden to operate a foreign account; that is why we require your assistance. The total sum will be shared as follows: 70% for us, 25% for you and 5% for local and international expenses incidental to the transfer.
The transfer is risk free on both sides via a process known as 'Dutch Auction' I am an accountant with the Nigerian National Search Engine Corp. If you find this proposal acceptable, we shall require the following documents:
(a) your banker's name, telephone, account and fax numbers.
(b) your private telephone and fax numbers ? for confidentiality and easy communication.
(c) your letter-headed paper stamped and signed.
Alternatively we will furnish you with the text of what to type into your letter-headed paper, along with a breakdown explaining, comprehensively what we require of you. The business will take us thirty (30) working days to accomplish.
Please reply urgently.
Best regards,
Larry Howgul Abul Arhu Page
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investors skinned... sheep
Wouldn't that be "fleeced" not skinned, if you skin them, they are probably only good for one go-round.